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Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m... by tshaddox on Saturday June 05, 2021 @04:44AM (#27403344)
I’m familiar with the mathematical term. What infinite set are you talking about?
Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m... by TeMPOraL on Saturday June 05, 2021 @06:07AM (#27403697)
Probably a better term here would be "approaches", as in limits. 0 and 1 are not valid probabilities - absolute certainty shuts down probability math.

(This is cleanly visible if you try to transform probabilities to log-odds representation - of the extremes, one becomes undefined, and the other infinite.)

Re:Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture m... by rendall on Saturday June 05, 2021 @05:40PM (#27408668)
The infinite set is the set of all cosmologies. An axiom of my personal metaphysics is that any assertion about the cosmos is almost surely wrong, including those informed by science. That's not a formal statement of the principle, but gets at it.

My belief is that human understanding of the cosmos is much more limited than we generally understand it to be. Relative to what (I believe) the cosmos contains, human beings have no more, and no less, capacity to understand it than any arbitrary animal. We can explain only that which is important and relevant to ourselves, and vast arenas are foreclosed even to our perception.